* Berlin W, Rankestrasse 24

10.5.14.

Dear Professor,

It is my great joy and great satisfaction that yourself, dear Professor, and our closest friends have thought of me for the Presidency; I thank you cordially for your trust. In fact, I had expressed its readiness to provide interim. But you seem to want me as permanent president. I've thought long. I do not redo my first proposal (Jones), because I realize that London is too eccentric and direction Korrespondenzblatt since there would be made very difficult. A vrai say, the most important objection against my presidency is to yourself. When a splinter group called abuse of psychoanalysis, yourself should be the head of the legitimate movement, so that everyone knows what is there in Freudian psychoanalysis. When we talked about this winter, you were of the opinion. On the other hand - and, lately, I discussed this with Sachs - should not that new tasks against you. But I found a solution and I hope that you will find practical. I will undertake specific tasks to the Presidency, me or who is finally chosen; my proposal would, however, you are officially in the head and that you ran the scientific congress. I think we should, as is done elsewhere in other scientific associations, give you the honorary presidency of permanent. As for me personally, I will not dwell on the feeling of my shortcomings, because I feel able to do better than my predecessor. But I remember the first congress : their excellent atmosphere and a lot of other things, they were your guidance. Even with the best will in the world, nobody else can give us the congress he lost character in Munich. Current reports and chairing sessions devolve the current President as, as well as all current affairs during the year. The exercise of your function is limited to the two-day conference, and you might even be replaced if the load is too heavy you; but this can hardly happen. Sachs immediately found this proposal very satisfactory. I would be delighted if you acquiesciez you too.

Having long been the trials of the article Federn, I thought printing Jahrbuch went well. I hope that no delay will occur.

Reik gave us a very nice presentation on male layers ⁽¹⁾; he wants to develop this work and give the Jahrbuch under the title : "Rites of the Father". Stärke sent me his large manuscript 18 placards, which was previously Jung. I examine carefully, but we can hardly take, not even partially, Stärke as now proposed.

I think, by our meeting this summer, everything will be settled in Switzerland. The publication of your "History" in the Jahrbuch push Jung (with him and his) to withdraw. Congress, then, will be a pleasure for us.

I am preparing for Imago work on greetings ⁽²⁾. Congress - if it goes the way we want - I want to talk about psychoanalytic therapy for mental illness.

Cordial greetings to you and yours, from my wife also.

Votre Karl Abraham.

(2) Apparently never published.

52 F

Dear Doctor

I find it touching that you remember that time that begins to awaken in me dark thoughts. I do not want to admit that I do not have the same labor as before and yet I can not hide probably much longer. Ars longa, life brevis (1). Guard small but determined friends and supporters continue my work is my consolation.

Accept my thanks from the heart and recommend me to your dear wife.

Your faithful Freud

* Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

7-5-14.

Cher ami,

You are now our president. We turn Association and we will not let it escape soon.

Maeder has agreed terms very helpful, Seif¹ a laconically. The official report of voting results will be sent by Rank, probably tomorrow.

I now propose to prepare a Korrespondenzblatt ⁽²⁾ which can be placed in the number 4 de la magazine. (The 3 is almost completed.) I ask you, in the preamble of your proclamation, not omit to say that the previous Central ceased operations since Munich and did not even provide a single report for Congress.

I continue not to be good and want to work without; I expect the events of the Jahrbuch, who do not come, despite all reminders. I will say a lot, I atténuerai also some.

I still have no idea what we will do this summer.

Heller has languished on the poor state of our subscriptions to two magazines. The printers' strike has certainly done much harm; but it must be good.

I hope your little ones are now fully rested, and you and your wife are as befits your youth and good agreement. I had 58 ans here. Sincerely.

Your Freud.

1. D^r The. Seif, psychoanalyst in Munich.

Iron

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS Edited by Professor D^r Sigm. Freud editors : Dr. S. Ferenczi, Budapest, VII. Elisabethring 54/ Dr. Otto Rank, Vienna IX / 4, Simondenkgasse 8 Verlag Hugo Heller & C °, Vienna, The. Farmers Market N ° 3 Subscription Price : year-round (6 Notebooks, 36-40 Bow) K 21.60 = Mk. 18.

Budapest, the 6 may 1914

Dear Professor,

The past week has been for me as a state of war. I swam round moving-the 1^he to 2^and floor (address remains unchanged : Elisabethring 54); together, I renewed my installation. I had to carry out all these changes - which are also not yet fully completed – without interfering with the analytical work, that I have succeeded in large- pain. Books are still Collage - yet, it is just now that I had to write the report for the Jahrbuch; I did memory and I had to search for references afterwards. Hitschmann but seems satisfied with the work.

Jung's resignation touched me very pleasantly. You do not ask me-dez, I believe, assent "official" to your proposals, with which I completely agree.

Dr.. Jaszi (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Head of the Radical Youth [1]) has always been that I consent to draft a detailed survey of psychoanalysis. We agreed to two conferences, this fall, the Company Sociopolitical ; I talk about the current state of psychoanalysis, Rank Sachs et (and allemand), applications of psychoanalysis to the mental sciences². [^A That said, I made the addition without the innkeeper and I don't know if R.[ank] and S.[achs] are willing to come to Budapest.] Jaszy wants to invite a number of people (including opponents) to participate in the discussion and tasked me to answer them. I think that the three of us, it is easy to knock out opponents (that, definitely, are not even aware of the basics of ψα).

I look forward to your information on the response of "directors".

Greetings from

Ferenczi your

A. Brackets in original.

1. Oszkar Jaszi (1875-1957), important figure of the radical Hungarian, in 1914, President of the Radical Party. He was secretary of the League of Social Sciences, Director of the School of Social Sciences and free editor Huszadik Szazad (XX^and century). In 1918, became a member of the State Council and Minister without portfolio in the government Karolyi. In 1919, Professor of Sociology at the University of Budapest. During the Republic of Councils, sous Béla Kun, he emigrated to Vienna, then, in 1925, moved to the United States, where he taught at Oberlin College (Ohio).

2. Rank and Sachs were not only editors of the journal Imago, but had also published a book together on the subject : The significance of psychoanalysis for the Humanities (The importance of psychoanalysis to the sciences of the mind), Wiesbaden, 1913.

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best wishes for tomorrow anniversary year of health and happiness full of fresh flowering tree branches on your work with warm greetings from me and my wife your Eitingon =

a. Telegram (Form I/1910).

1. The classification of the telegram this year is uncertain.

187

27 April 1914 69 Portland Court, London

Dear Professor Freud,

I totally agree with your proposal, and add my voice to the resume Abraham Vereinsleitung [direction].

Hurriedly

well you Jones.

470 F

Prof.. Dr. Freud.

the 24 April 1914 Vienna, IX. Berggasse 19

Cher Ami,

A Brioni, I had noticed something like a home inhibition, and I connected it to the presence of Rank, but I did not go look further, because I was suffering from withdrawal of libido hypochondriac. Since then, expressed a grand home with tracheo-laryngitis net loss of general signs prodromal. I have not stopped working – by greed and sense of duty - but I missed it last Wednesday and, today, I am far from feeling good, either locally or in general but, first of all, I can not think.

The surprising resignation of Jung ⁽¹⁾ we really eased the task. There seems to be a part of the force that… etc. ⁽²⁾. What happens in it, it projects, can not guess, we may as well ignore it. Maybe he succumbed to the burst of the Zeitschrift^* and bomb Jahrbuch too late. Immediately, I felt like a "steering committee" and I brought an action in which you and other friends must be, or are already, informed by a circular Rank ⁽³⁾.

The conquest of fire, I just have nothing. The cultural history is silent. But I'm very curious to see what you two come out of serious.

Materials for the Jahrbuch must, as stated Hitschmann, limited! Rank and Sachs withdrew their contribution ⁽⁴⁾ therefore. You'll want to put aside your well exposed for another time, ferment or leaven as a new job.

With cordial greetings to you and to Mrs. G.,

Your faithful Freud

* Criticism of Ferenczi about "Symbols of Transformation libido" Jung (1913, 124, Psychoanalysis, II, pp. 88-104), Magazine, 1913, 1, 391-403, and critical discussions about its work by Abraham, Ferenczi and Jones, in the next volume of the Zeitschrift (1914, 2, pp. 72-87).

(2) « … force which sometimes does and sometimes creates evil with good " (see 35 F, note 1).

(3) The 30 April, Freud wrote identical letters to the presidents of the six European (Berlin, Budapest, London, Munich, Vienne et Zurich), asking them "to appoint, among the six presidents of the local groups that come into play, the person to whom you want to entrust the management of the association until the election of a President ; you are not required to exclude your own person… Myself, I am inclined to elect Dr.. Abraham, as provisional president of the association, since it is he who is best placed to carry out, from his place of residence, preliminary steps for the conference to be held in Dresden " (unpublished letter). The proposal was accepted Freud.

(4) UNIDENTIFIED contribution.

* Vienna, IX, Berggasse 19

24.4.14.

Cher ami,

You certainly have been as surprised as me to see with what solicitude Jung rule our business. Our reservation was eventually bear fruit ; in one way or another, we will be rid of him, perhaps even a whole Swiss.

I immediately brought into action the convening of the Conference of Presidents and I asked to write a circular Rank which should enable a decision by letter and thus save themselves a trip. The process is accomplished in two stages : First among friends, and only if they are in agreement, formally to all presidents (c.à.d. two more people). I ask you to support the proposal that you assign to the Congress leadership.

I enjoyed Brioni (2), but when there, I struggled against an indisposition which I had not known and is reported here as a tracheo-laryngitis serious. At this very moment, I am not well at all and intellectually, particularly, I'm completely inactive. Perhaps our members get weighed down by the intoxication of spring.

Hitschmann find the Jahrbuch is already more than fulfilled, so that Rank and Sachs withdrew their contribution. One can very well accept Sadger and set aside.

Last week, I spoke with two members of the U.S. Ward's Island (the group most seriously) ; they assured me Jung's influence at home is not at all important. He seems to have strong support in the person of Jellife.

With cordial greetings to you and your dear wife, and my best wishes for the new era ajungienne,

Your Freud.

2. Island in the Adriatic.

Berlin telegram 22.4.14.

Warm congratulations to the new Zurich

Abraham, Eitingon.

1. Referring to Jung's resignation from the presidency of the International Psychoanalytic Association.